#specifically

When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#college #editor #editors #i #i love

You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation. ↗

— Leon Uris

#audience #comes #generation #hope #just

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#down #every #go #like #novels

Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#i #me #played #role #specifically

The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants. ↗

— Dave Foley

#angeles #california #fantastic #los #los angeles

It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.' ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#been #believe #born #cause #come

I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically. ↗

— Steven Wright

#buy #general #i #me #specifically

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#eccentric #either #must #nothing #poet

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#always #any #assigned #autobiography #aversion

Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#better #day #days #deserved #doubt